The Mystics Chart

<body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="table1"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <h1>The ‘Mystics Chart’</h1> <p>‘Religiosity’ is the path, some say the cul-de-sac, that the determinedly or the half-hearted ‘religious’ can go down. This ‘Mystics Chart’ is but one view, and it seeks to point up possible differences between traditional ‘Religion’, which helps Man take ritualistic steps on a path toward the Divine, the Spiritual who in heart and head work to realise a certain path, and ways of the Mystic who intuitively, and mostly with sure certainty, has always known there was one path and one goal. Besides providing comfort to millions, in the face of and unanswerable questions about life’s physical-mental-spirit immensity, Religions have also been involved in bloodshed. As evidenced today with (Islamist and other) religious zealots-turned-bombers. Mystics are associated with withdrawal from the world, not bloodshed. Muhammad (pbuh) was a man of the world, a trader, a religious leader and (perhaps after age 40?) a mystic, renowned as the final Prophet of Allah. Yet he was also a warrior-leader and there was bloodshed. Islam also offers us Sufism, the mystical with no call for violence. Jesus honoured God as Father and was himself acclaimed Son of God by Christians, though not by Muslims. He saw bloodshed and used (moderate) violence – the overturning of money-lenders’ tables in the Temple. The Hindu-Sanskrit does not believe a man kills another, just enforces the departure of spirit-soul for this lifetime; such spirit-souls, until ‘realised’, under the eternal divine laws of God/Absolute, then become ready to resume in another embodiment (as Plato understood). This Chart points up separation and duality, until ‘realization’, which can occur in this lifetime. This text, here, is a series of brief comments, limited in scope and probably confusing. The hope is that the ‘Mystics Chart’ is quietly thought-provoking and illuminating. There is one God, Allah, Jehovah, Absolute, Creator. <p><a target="_self" href="mystics-chart-chart.htm">On to the Mystics Chart</a></td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <img border="0" src="images/mystic.jpg" width="94" height="429" hspace="10"></td> </tr> </table> </body>